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Sanford C. Cohen Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery in Ellington, Connecticut
15 Full Time Seasonal H-2A Jobs available 07/22/2024 - 11/26/2024.
Crops/Commodities: Tobacco, pumpkins, gourds, squash, hay, straw, rye, oats, barley, wheat, corn, soybeans, and mums. This job requires a minimum of three months of verifiable prior experience working on a farm handling both manual and machine tasks associated with commodity production and harvest activities. Workers must be able to perform manual as well as mechanized activities with accuracy and efficiency. Workers must have no fear of working from heights of 20+ feet above the ground. This job requires work in fields and barn/curing structures performing manual and machine tasks associated with tobacco. This includes planting, cultivating, and setting up plants after storms. Workers will receive worker protection training as worker, handler, and early entry worker. Chop and top tobacco plants. Cut and lay plants on ground, pick up plants (2-3 each), hand plants to spearer, spear plants onto lath, load onto riggings. Pass lath progressively upward in shed and hang lath onto poles, standing at considerable height. Clean and set up burners in each shed and hook up propane to be functional. After curing, remove burners and equipment, take down tobacco, and strip/bundle leaves for market, taking care to prevent damage to plants at all stages to ensure wrapper-quality product.
This job requires the harvest of pumpkins, gourds and squash, which entails cutting the vines, carrying and win rowing, sorting, inspecting and packing by size, variety and maturity according to orders.
Install/maintain irrigation systems and water lines. Move and install irrigation pipes and equipment. Dig and maintain ditches. Perform ditching, shoveling, clearing brush, hoeing, hauling, ground preparation, fertilize, apply pesticides and other manual tasks. Bending, stooping and kneeling required. Use hand tools including but not limited to hoes, shovels, rakes, machete, hatchets, shears, clippers, loppers, and saws. Lift, carry, and load/unload products or supplies.
Use power equipment including but not limited to: tractors, planters, mowers, plows, sprayers, cultivators, power shears, chain saws, high lifts, skid loaders. Workers must operate equipment, with or without direction, in a manner that protects operator, visitors, other workers, products, trees, crops and equipment. Failure to comply with safety requirements and operating instructions may result in termination.
Install, repair, maintain, remove, and monitor curing and asscociated equipment for tobacco. Clear debris from field and clean/maintain farm buildings, structures and equipment and work areas. Assist with farm building/field maintenance and repairs. Repair fences. Mow, cut, and weed fields. Bale, stack and load hay and straw and pick rocks from fields. Cut, load, split, and stack fire wood.
Work requires working on rails in barns/curing structures, which are 48 inches apart and from 6 feet to 20+ feet above the ground. Workers must have no fear of working from heights.
Requirements:
- 3 months experience in duties listed
- Drug Screen
- Lifting requirement 50 lbs.
- Exposure to extreme temperatures
- Extensive Pushing or Pulling
- Extensive sitting or walking
- Frequent stooping or bending over
- Repetitive movements
The full terms and conditions of the job (form ETA790a) should be reviewed and provided to qualified applicants from this website: seasonaljobs.dol.gov